libertas vs. suspend (was: [IAEP] F11-0.88 os260py)

[Sascha Silbe]

Excerpts from Bernie Innocenti's message of Fri Jun 18 03:26:56 +0000 2010:

>  * Disconnects from network on power save. This is a long-standing
>    kernel bug. In 0.84, we "fixed" it by disabling power management.
I'm not sure what you're seeing is really a kernel bug (unless you don't 
ship the latest OLPC kernel).
It works fine for me even across several hundred suspend/resume cycles 
(it gets woken about once per 1-2 minutes by IGMP queries from the AP), 
though this is with an otherwise unused WLAN, so rekeyings are infrequent. 
And rekeyings might be exactly what's causing you trouble: According to 
Dan Williams, the libertas chip doesn't wake us for these [1]. I haven't 
had time to verify that yet.
Upgrading to the latest NetworkManager version might also improve things
a lot.

Sascha

[1] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/libertas-dev/2010-May/003107.html
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